Benjamin C. Lippincott (1827-1912) was born in Haddonfield, New Jersey, and died in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. He was a Methodist Episcopal clergyman and a trustee of both Pennington Seminary and Dickinson College, from which he graduated in 1859. Soon after graduation, Lippincott served as the principal of the Cumberland Institute in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He then moved west, where in 1860 he became head of the Puget Sound Wesleyan Institute in Olympia, Washington. In 1862, he was elected by the legislature of Washington territory as the first superintendent of public instruction. While on the Pacific coast, he served as the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Olympia, Dallas City, and Portland. In 1866, he was transferred to the New Jersey conference. Baker University conferred upon him the degree of doctor of divinity in 1885. Lippincott was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and occupied a prominent position in the Masonic fraternity. He retired in 1908.

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